July 2021 – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

Anthology Forest…

The Lesson

31 Jul 202120 Jul 2021

There used to be an old Oak tree out back. Life drained from it, it stood strong and sturdy. As a child I worshipped its towering stature and marveled its…

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Dear Monstera

30 Jul 202120 Jul 2021

It is your looking into my face ... That calms my spirits; is it your grace? How does your eye upon your leaf, Instill in me that sense of relief?…

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Sylvan Bliss

29 Jul 202121 Jun 2021

Sylvan Bliss Passage to a primeval reality Offering freshen and vitality To the world worn mind Wisdom and balm to those inclined Rambling in the kingdom sylvan Freedom and connections…

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Forest Bathing

28 Jul 202126 Jul 2021

Eyes, brain, nerves, frazzled from staring at black squares on a blue flickering screen for the past 9 months. Barren. The forest, not far, calls to me: Come. Bathe in…

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In Deed

27 Jul 202126 Jul 2021

My initials, name, and payment prove I own it, this steep hill thick with laurel, pine, and logs. Covenants say I may float a dock, let it stretch in murky,…

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Owl in the Rain

26 Jul 202112 Jul 2021

Someday I hope to be as soft and silent as this sleeping owl on its red branch. My dreams of sharp nights and claws surrounded by green leaves. Poem and…

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Boxwood

25 Jul 202122 Jul 2021

We had come by the boxwood too often in November for me to think it was coincidence, my father’s reluctance to move forward on the trail and eagerness to stand…

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Cedar Hill

24 Jul 202121 Jul 2021

Poem by Marianne Mersereau. Marianne Mersereau is a poet, mystic and tree-hugger who grew up in the forested hills of Appalachia. She currently resides among the mist-covered evergreens of…

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Tree

23 Jul 202127 Sep 2021

On this day you are one and the same that poet who won’t change his life and thinks he can change another’s who grinds away at the trunk of a…

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Of the Living Silence

22 Jul 202119 Jul 2021

Evening comes with chattering squirrels, a cardinal turned black at dusk, his voice a sharp crimson note in my dim forest. Foraging armadillos are abroad in leaf litter. Snuffling. High-pitched…

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Dark River

21 Jul 202119 Jul 2021

Balsam firs tower above. Shaded below, the stream pours over boulders, rocks, downed logs and pebbles. My poor toes—wading barefoot, gingerly, cringing, ouch! oooh! ow! I wish for the callused…

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Some Trees Keep Their Leaves in Winter

20 Jul 202119 Jul 2021

So far, we have only theories for why some dead, paper-thin leaves cling to branches long after all their chlorophyll is gone Pale and dry as old coffee filters I…

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Silvered Trees

19 Jul 20215 Jul 2021

Poem by Duane L. Herrmann Duane L. Herrmann, internationally published, award-winning poet and historian, has seven collections of poetry and a sci fi novel: Escape from Earth. His poetry has…

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Forest Dawn

18 Jul 20215 Jul 2021

In the soft light of the winter start, down the frost covered and weary trail, my eyes glimpse striking shadows and forms, with final autumn breathes they stretch, tall and…

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The Relativity of Noise

17 Jul 20215 Jul 2021

Speaking as a tree that fell in the forest with no one there to hear, acknowledge, or record the sound made as my trunk split, inexplicably, splintered, and finally crashed,…

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On Storied Wood

16 Jul 202119 Jun 2021

On Storied Wood -for Ivy Shuman I never knew that every tree holds the fire of its dying that it lifts its leaves its branches like arms and hands in…

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Goodwife’s Prayer, Autumn 1653

15 Jul 202119 Jun 2021

Goodwife’s Prayer, Autumn 1653 Do I call after you, Lord, through the dark hallways of leaves, this black forest, in air so full and heavy it pulls against one’s journey?…

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Explorers Circa 1982

14 Jul 202113 Jun 2021

EXPLORERS CIRCA 1982 You have little memory of that year, our last under the same roof. We lived near the wild– a creek streaming through, tributary of the Mascoma River.…

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Honey Locust

13 Jul 202113 Jun 2021

HONEY LOCUST subdued splendor of the evening gardens green silk of dew-lit grasses cicadas in the leaves of night the sky unfolding its skein of stars Previously published in Earthtones…

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Subterranean Wonder

12 Jul 202111 Jun 2021

Subterranean Wonder A fungus that we see is generally the fruiting body of a much more expansive organism, its thread-like mycelium extending across up to thousands of acres underground, potentially…